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lapfog_1

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2. the ridiculous thing is that this will not be needed

Reply to hatrack (Original post)

Wed Jun 11, 2025, 08:30 AM

Jun 11

By the time they build the new power plants, AI will not need the power.

Next gen chips will need far less power to accomplish the "math" that is involved with doing agentic AI. Unlike crypto, it has been demonstrated that "decent AI" can be done with far fewer complex math operations.

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Oh, Thank God!!! Proposals In Motion For More Than 100 New Power Plants In TX, Because AI [View all] hatrack Jun 11 OP

A bil has passed the Texas Senate with disincentives for renewables. surfered Jun 11 #1

the ridiculous thing is that this will not be needed lapfog_1 Jun 11 #2

Well, that's not a comforting thought EYESORE 9001 Jun 11 #3

much like the internet, and computing before that lapfog_1 Jun 11 #4

Not the same. GenAI models, LLMs, work as well as they do (and they fail a lot) only because of the theft of highplainsdem Jun 11 #6

Absolutely! These systems should be illegal, imo! SheltieLover Jun 11 #7

Yes, and we must burn more coal and more gas - all of it, in fact - to power Shiny New Thing hatrack Jun 12 #9

Years ago, I marveled that no matter how fast CPU's got, Microsoft made them run slowly OKIsItJustMe Jun 11 #8

Well of course, as has been demonstrated over the last decade or so - werdna Jun 11 #5